Thursday, January 29, 2009

three weeks tomorrow

i am beginning to get really anxious to go. three weeks from friday and i will be on a plane right now headed to meet everyone in d.c. then off to italy. i must admit...i am a little scared. but i think in a healthy way, i am so excited! i think i am mostly nervous about packing. i hate packing, i feel like i never know what to bring and always bring things i never wear and leave things i wish i had.

and i don't know how much to bring. i am traveling for a week and a half after and i need to somehow get whatever i can't travel with back to the states.

and i am trying to decide how much i want to spend now a photography equipment before i go. i would love to pick up a wide angle lense and a couple of filters, but it is all so expensive....

i have been doing a lot of research on italy, and reading rick steves europe through the back door. so i have been getting really excited. already know tons of places i want to go in italy for long weekends and tons of places in france i want to visit! but what i have been doing enough of is brushing up on my italian.

so i guess the leaving part and the traveling part are the exciting things and this trying to get ready to leave thing the overwhelming part.....

hum.....thoughts or suggestions please :)

2 comments:

Doug Eubank said...

Hey don't worry you'll be fine... Trust me I had some of the same feelings when i started, and guess what I'm here on my trip. There will always be things you wished you would have brought, and things you know you shouldn't have brought. But I know you'll be fine. If you have an idea on where you want to go you are already on top of the game. If you think you might wear it don't take it, I find myself being able to wear about a weeks worth of clothes and that's about it prob, I don't know how much you will have access to laundry but yeah that's me. Take essentials and not to much extra stuff. Feel free to video chat me sometime when you get a chance and we can talk about all the traveling, I wanna hear where ur going and what ur doing as well. Let me know when u get a chance so we can chat.

Doug Eubank said...

Hey yeah I have Gmail as well, doug.m.eubank@gmail.com is my account. But unfortunately i will not be in Europe just Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. I really want to see Europe so your going to have to tell me how it is. Hope all is well and that whole packing thing is going well and if u need any other advice hit me up...